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...much radiation you are exposed to in a single full-body scan. It turns out to be 100 times the radiation dose of a typical mammogram--or roughly equivalent to that received by Hiroshima survivors 1.5 miles away from the center of the atom bomb blast. According to David Brenner, lead author of the study, the risks associated with just one scan are relatively modest, likely to increase your chances of dying from a radiation-caused cancer to about 0.08%. But if you were to get scanned every year for 30 years, your risk of developing a radiation-related tumor...
Nobel laureate Sidney Brenner, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., delivered a keynote address on the trade-offs between data collection and “knowledge” in the future of biology...
...Brenner, the free housing was “a tradeoff” because she would have to go through the hassle of moving mid-year...
...guess I don’t sleep very well in hotels,” said Brenner, who wasn’t looking forward to riding two subway stops to campus with her heavy casebooks...
...novelty’s worn off a little. I want to be in my own bed with my own sheets,” Brenner said. “It feels like a hotel...